Director - Digital Technology

About Oshkosh Defense, an Oshkosh company

Oshkosh Defense stands behind those who dedicate their lives to protecting others.  As an industry-leading tactical vehicle manufacturer, every day we strive to meet or exceed our customers' ever-changing needs with next generation defense technologies and advanced systems.  We operate with unparalleled commitment to those who depend on our products and services worldwide to perform their missions.

Heller has been retained to identify and recruit an experienced and highly 
qualified Director, Digital Technology to lead the organization’s direction, 
mission, vision, and Digital Technology (DT) competencies. This leader will drive the adoption and scaling of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, and digital manufacturing solutions to accelerate business transformation and operational excellence. This person will be responsible for human capital management, defining budgets, departmental directionality, and driving process improvement, innovation, and customer obsession. Reporting to Don McCartney, VP of Transport Segment, the Director of Digital Technology will also be responsible for securing operations of systems, data, and performance for mission-critical systems across the enterprise.

YOUR IMPACT

• Champion the integration of AI/IA, machine learning, and intelligent automation into core business processes to unlock new value streams and improve decision-making.

• Shape and advance the organization’s digital manufacturing strategy to support long-term competitiveness, agility, and operational excellence.

• Evaluate and position emerging technologies to modernize the digital ecosystem and enable a more adaptive, future-ready organization.

• Partner cross-functionally to align technology strategy with business priorities, driving transformation across operations, engineering, and the value chain.

• Foster a culture of innovation, digital fluency, and continuous evolution to sustain long-term transformation and organizational growth.

• Build and Drive a BI self-serve organizational/architectural structure

• Direct multiple teams of information technology professionals through performance management, annual reviews, career coaching, personal development plans; Promotes the DT C.A.R.E. competencies and a people first culture. 

• Work closely with Enterprise DT driving economies of scale and simplifying the application portfolio. 

• Ensure compliance with IT and business policies and audit requirements including and coordinating measuring, and reporting on the technical aspect of IT management. 

• Deep understanding of core business domains across advanced digital solutions, digital manufacturing, ecommerce, and ERP through policy change, emerging trends, and economic impacts to better position strategic planning.

• Partner with business and technology leaders to develop 2-year strategy roadmap, define performance metrics, milestones, and outcomes across business optimization results 

• Partner with business leaders to understand the organizational direction, vision, and outcomes sought to better position technical solution design.

• Review and approve financial management best practices through annual plans, budgets, assessing ongoing spend, ROI, and proposing and implementing changes to better the results and agility of the organization.

• Develop departmental best practices, policies and procedures across IT operations, project approach, architecture and management with overall global IT targets and approach.

• Overseeing technology operations and evaluating them accordingly to established goals and strategic roadmaps.

• Serve as a strategic change leader, aligning executive vision with organizational execution while driving segment-wide transformation and adoption.

• Partnering with the enterprise team in deploying leading industry standard data marts and warehouses while accelerating AI performance tool rollout

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree with ten (10) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.

• Five (5) or more years of management experience.

• ITIL, COBIT, financial planning, budgeting, business acumen, data analytics, design thinking, agile, scrum, risk management, strategic planning, workforce planning

• Communication, listening, adaptability, relationship building, negotiation, leadership, storytelling, coaching, public speaking, delegation skills

Pay Range:

$136,800.00 - $253,200.00

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at [email protected].

Oshkosh Corporation is a merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer. Job opportunities are open for application to all qualified individuals and selection decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic. To the extent that information is provided or collected regarding categories as provided by law it will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

Certain positions with Oshkosh Corporation require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.